Team

Meet the people behind Ritual

Core

Niraj Pant

Niraj Pant

Co-founder

GP @ Polychain, Research @ Decentralized Systems Lab, CS @ UIUC

Akilesh Potti

Akilesh Potti

Co-founder

Partner @ Polychain, ML @ Palantir, HFT, Quant Trading @ Goldman, ML Research @ {MIT, Cornell}

Arshan Khanifar

Arshan Khanifar

Research, Trading @ Polychain, RF @ Apple, EE @ UWaterloo

Arka Pal

Arka Pal

Deepmind, Abacus, Kosen, University of Cambridge

Stef Henao

Stef Henao

Head of People @ Protocol Labs, HRBP @ Coinbase, People Ops @ Hired, IB Analyst @ Credit Suisse

Naveen Durvasula

Naveen Durvasula

PhD student @ Columbia (Tim Roughgarden), Algorithmic Game Theory, EECS @ UC Berkeley

Tess Dore

Tess Dore

Research & Engineering @ Lita, Nexus. Math PhD @ Stanford, Math @ Princeton

Maryam Bahrani

Maryam Bahrani

Research @ a16z crypto, CS PhD @ Columbia (Tim Roughgarden), Quant Trader @ Jane Street, CS @ Princeton

Hadas Zeilberger

Hadas Zeilberger

PhD Student @ Yale (Ben Fisch), Cryptography, Researcher @ Consensys, Math @ Columbia

0xEmperor

0xEmperor

Multi-disciplinary researcher - NLP and ML. Crypto research.

Praveen Palanisamy

Praveen Palanisamy

Principal AI Eng @ Microsft AI & Research, CS @ CMU

Frieder Erdmann

Frieder Erdmann

TEEs @ Flashbots, CTO @ konVera

Micah Goldblum

Micah Goldblum

Postdoc @ NYU (Yann Lecunn), AI; PhD @ University of Maryland (Tom Goldstein), Mathematics

Kartik Chopra

Kartik Chopra

Founding Engineer @ Primev, CS @ University of Waterloo

Dan Gosek

Dan Gosek

CoS @ Ava Labs, Political Science & Economics @ Columbia

Charlie Wyse

Charlie Wyse

Infrastructure & Engineering @ Ava Labs, Sony, Dreamworks, RedHat

Spencer Solit

Spencer Solit

Founding Engineer @ Seismic, CS & Math @ Penn, Cryptography / ML Research @ Penn

Jody Rebak

Jody Rebak

CoS @ Dapper Labs

Achal Srinivasan

Achal Srinivasan

Collaborator to Paradigm, dYdX, and more. Previously Coinbase, CS @ Rice.

Stelios Rousoglou

Stelios Rousoglou

Founding Eng @ Alta, SWE @ C3, Masters in CS [AI] @ Stanford, CS @ Yale

Alluri Siddhartha

Alluri Siddhartha

Ethereum Foundation (0xParc, PSE), CS @ UIUC (Daniel Kang)

Andrew Komo

Andrew Komo

PhD Student @ MIT, Algorithmic Game Theory, Jane Street, Math & CS @ MIT

Sarah McNeely

Sarah McNeely

TPM @ Near, LucidWorks, PhD English Literature @ TCU

Jeanine Boselli

Jeanine Boselli

Ops @ Palantir, Protocol Labs

Mayank Pandey

Mayank Pandey

PhD student @ Princeton (Peter Sarnak), Analytic Number Theory, Math @ Caltech, Citadel

Peiyuan Liao

Peiyuan Liao

CTO + Co-Founder @ rabbit, ZKML @ zk-ml.xyz, ML systems research & GNNs @ CMU, GM @ Kaggle

Louai Zahran

Louai Zahran

Olympiad enthusiast + Medalist

Interns

Advisors